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Abstract
We propose a novel method to locate spruces in a young stand with a low cost unmanned aerial vehicle. The method has three stages: 1) the forest area is mapped and a digital surface model and terrain models are generated, 2) the locations of trees are found from a canopy height model using local maximum and watershed algorithms, and 3) these locations are used in a convolution neural network architecture to detect young spruces. Our result for detecting young spruce trees among other vegetation using only color images from a single RGB camera were promising. The proposed method is able to achieve a detection accuracy of more than 91%. As low cost unmanned aerial vehicles with color cameras are versatile today, the proposed work is enabling low cost forest inventory for automating forest management.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 15777–15783 |
Number of pages | 7 |
Journal | IFAC-PapersOnLine |
Volume | 53 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Nov 2020 |
MoE publication type | A4 Article in a conference publication |
Event | IFAC World Congress - Virtual, Online Duration: 11 Jul 2020 → 17 Jul 2020 Conference number: 21 |
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Competence-Based Growth Through Integrated Disruptive Technologies of 3D Digitalization, Robotics, Geospatial Information and Image Processing/Computing – Point Cloud Ecosystem
Visala, A., Badar, T., Vihlman, M., Sandru, A. & Ouattara, I.
01/01/2018 → 31/07/2021
Project: Academy of Finland: Strategic research funding
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COMBAT: Competence-Based Growth Through Integrated Disruptive Technologies of 3D Digitalization, Robotics, Geospatial Information and Image Processing/Computing - Point Cloud Ecosystem
Nieminen, J., Ahlavuo, M., Vaaja, M. T., Laitala, A., Julin, A., Hyyppä, H., Maksimainen, M., Lehtola, V., Ståhle, P., Haggren, H., Rantanen, T., Gullmets, H., Kauhanen, H., Ingman, M., Karvonen, S., Kurkela, M., Luhtala, L., Jaalama, K. & Virtanen, J.
01/05/2015 → 31/12/2017
Project: Academy of Finland: Strategic research funding